Human activities, such as mining, agricultural practices, and road construction, significantly shape landscape topography, impacting Earth surface processes.

Human topographic signatures and derived geomorphic processes across landscapes

Earth's surface is shaped by billions of years of feedback between biota and Earth materials, with significant implications for climate and ecosystems.

Coupling between biota and earth materials in the critical zone

Soft-matter physics can improve our understanding of geophysical flows shaping Earth's landscapes, offering new insights and opportunities for collaboration between physics and geomorphology.

Viewing Earth’s surface as a soft-matter landscape

The early Earth was geologically mature from surface to deep interior, potentially contributing to stable surface conditions for early life evolution.

Plate motion and a dipolar geomagnetic field at 3.25 Ga

Earth Surface Processes study the physical and chemical fluxes across the Earth's surface, resulting in landscapes shaped by tectonic and climatic processes.

An Introduction to Earth Surface Processes

A 100-million-year simulation of Earth's surface evolution clarifies the role of sediment transfer and accumulation on a global scale, helping us better understand the Late Cenozoic pulse in marine sedimentation and the constancy of global weathering flux.

Hundred million years of landscape dynamics from catchment to global scale

Silica powder, glass microbeads, and PVC powder in laboratory-scaled erosion models best mimic natural landscapes, with varying concentrations producing realistic landscapes.

Erosional response of granular material in landscape models

Human activities significantly influence the Earth's surface, with a growing footprint on landscapes, ecosystems, sediments, and climate, suggesting the Anthropocene as a geologic epoch.

Humans and the Earth's surface

Erosion-driven isostatic uplift accounts for up to 50% of modern rock uplift in the European Alps, with internal and external factors also contributing to its shaping.

How Climate, Uplift and Erosion Shaped the Alpine Topography

A unified science of Earth's surface requires integrating disciplines and approaches to better predict surface dynamics and understand interactions between tectonics, water, sediment, solutes, and biota.

Toward a unified science of the Earth's surface: Opportunities for synthesis among hydrology, geomorphology, geochemistry, and ecology

Landforms of the World with Google Earth: Understanding our Environment

The Helmholtz Laboratory for Geochemistry of the Earth Surface (HELGES) uses geochemical fingerprints to quantify and understand material turnover rates at the Earth's surface, influenced by tectonic forces, climate, biota, and human activity.

HELGES: Helmholtz Laboratory for the Geochemistry of the Earth Surface

This book aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of Earth surface processes, landforms, and sediment deposits, with a focus on geomorphology and sedimentology, and their interrelatedness for scientific, engineering, environmental, and economic purposes.

Earth Surface Processes, Landforms and Sediment Deposits: Definitions, rationale, and scope of the book

Geomorphology is the study of landscapes shaped by bedrock uplift, deformation, and sediment transport, with unique processes unique to Earth.

Shaping the Surface of Earth: Geomorphology in a Nutshell

The surface of the Earth is shaped by tectonic processes, volcanic processes, gradational processes, and impact cratering, with impact cratering being a fourth major process.

Planetary morphologic processes

Earth surface processes, including fluid and sediment dynamics, play a crucial role in environmental change and shaping the global and local environments.

Earth Surface Processes

Human activities, such as agriculture, mining, road networks, and urbanization, significantly shape landscapes and impact Earth surface processes.

The geomorphology of humanity

Man's influence on Earth's shape is a complex, multifaceted issue, involving both natural and human factors, and affecting the environment in various ways.

MAN SHAPES THE EARTH

The EarthShape project explores the complex interactions between geology and biology, revealing how climate feedbacks control Earth's climate and shaping landscapes across Chile's National Parks.

“The Skin of the Earth – Where Life meets Rocks” – A Science Movie

Tree rings can provide valuable data on past geomorphic events, enabling accurate predictions of climate change impacts on these processes.

What Tree Rings Can Tell About Earth-Surface Processes: Teaching the Principles of Dendrogeomorphology

What are the processes that shape the Earth's surface?

These studies suggest that Earth's surface is shaped by a combination of human activities, biotic and abiotic interactions, geophysical flows, tectonic and climatic processes, sediment transfer, and erosion-driven isostatic uplift.